A sampling of United Nations related blog commentary
Bump in the Beltway: "Congress faces tough issues after recess: In theory, Republicans want to proceed with the controversial nomination of former Undersecretary of State John Bolton to be ambassador to the United Nations. But it is uncertain how quickly Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., will be able to move it to the floor again. The drama was deferred, not defused. This is going to be a messy week."
Daily Kos: "What will it take to get a few Republican Senators to vote against Bolton? He is clearly an individual who has shown an unwillingness to work diplomatically with allies and enemies alike."
Little Green Footballs: "The latest Associated Press push to discredit John Bolton is one of the sleaziest, most biased pieces of work I've read in quite some time: Bolton Said to Orchestrate Unlawful Firing."
Moderate Voice: "Yet another news story has surfaced to give a big, fat black eye to John Bolton - but in hard-nosed political terms will it really matter in terms of derailing his likely approval as the new U.S. Ambassador to the UN?"
TPM Cafe: "The United Nations is celebrating World Environment Day by producing an atlas, One Planet Many People. The book documents the harm that we're doing to the environment. The internet spot for the book is here. Click on "chapters" to download the pdf files. The book is available for sale here."
Selected summary of United Nations related news and events
Court Investigates Sudan's Darfur Region
Afghanistan: UN Mission condemns violence against election workers
Lebanese Musician and Writer Named UN 'Artist for Peace'
Students March Against Pollution
World Environment Day slideshow
UN News Service: "The theme of the UN environmental day this year is "Green Cities - Plan for the Planet," The UN High Commissioner for Refugees has adapted it to: "Green your Camps - Improve Natural Resource Management and Plan for the Planet." The Day was celebrated yesterday, 5 June, in San Francisco, California and around the world."
A sampling of United Nations related blog commentary
Diplomatic Times Review: "The Toledo (Ohio) Blade opined in a June 2, 2005 editorial: "Thank goodness the Senate has put President Bush's controversial nomination of John Bolton as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations on hold at least until next week."
Martin Varsavsky: "No matter how local we think we are we all share planet earth. So what about 100 hours out of 10,000 in which students follow a United Nations curriculum that is the SAME for all kids in the planet. My proposal is that during this 100 hours student learn the basic principles of human rights, understanding and respecting others, and as importantly learning about our fragile environment and how to protect it. That´s it, 100 hours. If we implement this any person in the planet who meets anyone else will in the future have at least 100 hours of a common background."
Washington Note: "My sense is that there are MORE than three Republican Senate offices now scrambling for reasons -- for phone calls -- to oppose Bolton."
Selected summary of United Nations related news and events
Two billion people need access to basic sanitation by 2015 to meet UN target
Blasts as Burundi goes to polls
UN Officials Say HIV/AIDS Can Be Controlled
Boosting urban farming can help feed fast-growing cities
"U.N. satellite imagery experts have determined that material that could be used to make biological or chemical weapons and banned long-range missiles has been removed from 109 sites in Iraq, U.N. weapons inspectors said in a report obtained Thursday." More...
Selected summary of United Nations related news and events
AIDS Spreading Faster than Efforts to Stop It
Annan Calls for Collective Action, Strong Leadership to Turn Back HIV/AIDS Epidemic
Schwarzenegger Unveiling Global Warming Plan at U.N. Conference
It's Crunch Time at the United Nations
United Nations Game a Surprise Hit
"Iraq's environmental problems - among the world's worst - range from a looted nuclear site which needs cleaning up to sabotaged oil pipelines, a U.N. official said on Thursday.
"An improvement is almost impossible in these security conditions. Chemicals are seeping into groundwater and the situation is becoming worse and creating additional health problems," said Pekka Haavisto, Iraq task force chairman at the United Nations Environmental Programme." Full Story